Romans 1:26 Parallel Translations

For this reason God allowed their shameful passions to control them. Their women have exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

ASV:

For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:

BBE:

For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:

DBY:

For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature;

ERV:

For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:

WEY:

This then is the reason why God gave them up to vile passions. For not only did the women among them exchange the natural use of their bodies for one which is contrary to nature, but the men also,

WBS:

For this cause God gave them up to vile affections. For even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

WEB:

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

YLT:

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature;

Romans 1:26 Cross References

XREF:

Romans 1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

1 Thessalonians 4:5 not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God; (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

1:26 For this cause. Because of the apostasy just described.
God gave them up. Abandoned them to their own course, and thus it was shown to what depths men will fall without God.
To vile affections. Vile, shameless, sensual indulgence, such as cannot now be named. The sodomy referred to here was common in the first century among the Romans, and is often spoken of without a sense of shame by their writers. It was prohibited neither by religion nor law, and was acknowledged without shame.

WES:

1:26 Therefore God gave them up to vile affections - To which the heathen Romans were then abandoned to the last degree; and none more than the emperors themselves.

MHC:

1:26-32 In the horrid depravity of the heathen, the truth of our Lord's words was shown: Light was come into the world, but men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil; for he that doeth evil hateth the light. The truth was not to their taste. And we all know how soon a man will contrive, against the strongest evidence, to reason himself out of the belief of what he dislikes. But a man cannot be brought to greater slavery than to be given up to his own lusts. As the Gentiles did not like to keep God in their knowledge, they committed crimes wholly against reason and their own welfare. The nature of man, whether pagan or Christian, is still the same; and the charges of the apostle apply more or less to the state and character of men at all times, till they are brought to full submission to the faith of Christ, and renewed by Divine power. There never yet was a man, who had not reason to lament his strong corruptions, and his secret dislike to the will of God. Therefore this chapter is a call to self-examination, the end of which should be, a deep conviction of sin, and of the necessity of deliverance from a state of condemnation.

CONC:

Affections Bodies Cause Change Changed Changing Contrary Degrading Dishonorable Dishonourable Evil Exchange Exchanged Females Function Lusts Natural Nature Ones Passions Reason Relations Unnatural Vile Women

Affections Bodies Cause Change Changed Changing Contrary Degrading Evil Exchange Exchanged Females Function Lusts Natural Nature Passions Reason Relations Shameful Unnatural Use Vile Women

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